Programme list

How do competition authorities across Europe deal with the newest issues in competition law enforcement? How do they maintain their relevance in the face of today’s challenges around for example rising consumer prices, digital transformation and sustainability? This roundtable will be an opportunity to hear directly from key enforcers about their priorities and future initiatives.

Tech companies remain under scrutiny around the world, facing the prospect of both ex-ante regulation and ex-post enforcement across a wide variety of business models. This panel will focus in particular on the new EU Digital Markets Act and its interplay with enforcement at EU and national level.

With the new VBER entering into force on 1 June 2022, the European Union gets new rules for vertical agreements. The panel will discuss topics like dual distribution, agents, platforms and other hot topics for brands and retailers as well as recent case law and enforcement practice. We will take a deep dive also into the latest global developments on digital distribution issues.

Increased merger control enforcement is high on the agenda for many jurisdictions and there is a trend of increased scrutiny and complexity, creating uncertainty for merger control parties. This panel will look at trends of expanding jurisdiction, more intense scrutiny of remedies (especially behavioural ones) and an increasing number of prohibited or abandoned deals due to the intervention of agencies.

What role is played by the Nordic courts in public and private competition law enforcement?   Are courts better suited than administrative bodies to decide whether the law has been infringed?   What has been the recent experience in private damage litigation? What are the lessons for other jurisdictions?

Interview with Dan Sjöblom, Former head of the Konkurrensverket, former head of Merger Control at DG COMP and current Director General of the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS)

The European Competition Network (ECN) is now 18 years old. What are the most important learnings from its childhood and adolescence? Can the ECN be now rightly called an adult, i.e. a mature system, fully realising its power and potential? What are the ECN's current biggest achievements and challenges? The panel will discuss these questions and will also look at the most relevant issues of the day from the perspective of both the enforcers as well as of those in private practice.